Riverside Community College District
Integrated Course Outline of Record
Business 86
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
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86 Transportation and Traffic Management
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Units: 3.00
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Prerequisite: None.
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A study of the domestic freight transportation system including the demand for freight movement, laws, regulations, pricing, and policies, traffic management and international transportation issues.
54 hours lecture.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION FOR CLASS SCHEDULE
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A study of the domestic freight transportation system, including pricing, regulation, and traffic management.
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ADVISORY ENTRY SKILLS
None.
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STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
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1. Assess the domestic freight transportation system.
2. Compare different modes of transportation.
3. Calculate the demand for and pricing of freight transportation.
4. Explain freight transportation, laws, regulations, and policies.
5. Demonstrate freight traffic management.
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COURSE CONTENT
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TOPICS
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1. Introduction to the domestic freight transportation system
2. The modes of freight transport
3. Demand for freight transportation
4. Laws and policies effecting freight transportation
5. Freight transportation pricing
6. Traffic management
7. International transportation issues
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METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
Methods of instruction used to achieve student learning outcomes may include, but are not limited to:
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- Instruction may take the form of online, hybrid, TV or other distance learning format.
- Present lectures to describe the essentials of transportation and traffic management concepts and their applications to business.
- Develop and assign exercises to reinforce concepts and encourage students to apply them to current transportation and traffic management trends and events.
- Create and have students participate in cooperative learning tasks such as small group exercises to identify issues that relate to course content and utilize the content to offer opinions, solutions and analysis with respect to those issues.
- Present case studies to provide students with the opportunity to utilize concepts learned in class to analyze transportation and traffic management situations.
- Develop and assign tasks/activities such as presentations in order to assess students understanding of transportation and traffic management concepts.
- Facilitate discussions regarding relevant current issues in business to encourage students to make appropriate connections to the course content.
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METHODS OF EVALUATION
Students will be evaluated for progress in and/or mastery of learning outcomes by methods of evaluation which may include, but are not limited to:
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- Examination designed to provide objective evidence that students have attained the level of understanding expected in the areas detailed in the Student Learning Outcomes.
- Individual, small group, or paired activities designed to allow students to demonstrate understanding of basic transportation and traffic management concepts.
- Quizzes and in-class participation demonstrating proficiency in the subject matter.
- Quizzes designed to assess the student learning outcomes.
- Written reports designed to assess the application of transportation and traffic management principles.
- Individual web projects designed to assess student proficiency in achieving the student learning outcomes.
- Individual or class projects designed to evaluate the application of transportation and traffic management principles to simulations of real business situations.
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ASSIGNMENTS
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Required Reading Assignments
Required Writing Assignments
Other Outside-of-Class Assignments
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COURSE MATERIALS
All materials used in this course will be periodically reviewed to ensure that they are appropriate for college level instruction. Possible texts include:
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Johnson & Wood. Contemporary Transportation. 5th ed.
Prentice Hall, 1996.
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Coyle, Bardi & Novack. Transportation. 6th ed.
South-Western Publishing, 2006.
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